Abstract
From the meiotic analysis of fifteen varieties of Lens culinaris it was noted that there was a regular formation of seven bivalents in all these vaireties but they differed in the number of ring and rod bivalents per pollen mother cell and the value of 1/2 chiasmata per bivalent. From the analysis of intraclass variance it was noted that there existed a significant variation in their chiasmata frequency. A negative correlation was noted in all these varieties except K 1995, where there was a positive correlation. Such observation indicated that there was a variation in the distribution of chiasmata even in the same nucleus. The analysis of pollen grains revealed that pollen sterility was present in such variety, but it had not attained appreciable value.
